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NEW DELHI: Cisco Systems on Thursday announced the launch of a new community portal designed for Cisco certified individuals. The portal will provide an interactive forum for customers with valid Cisco certifications to network with Cisco subject matter experts, employees, partners, resellers and other customers as well as share and gather networking best practice, a company release said. "Like courses and exams, communities are also aimed at providing lifelong learning...

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against Cisco Systems Inc over a patent infringement claim the tech giant is fighting. On a 6-2 vote, with Justice Stephen Breyer recused from the case, the court threw out a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in favor of Cisco. There is now likely to be a new trial. The case concerns a patent held by Commil USA LLC on a way to improve the implementation of a wireless network where...

NEW DELHI: IT networking major Cisco Systems on Thursday said it has bagged an order from express cargo company Gati to implement its integrated Wide Area Network across 400 locations in the country for running web-based applications. Cisco's network will connect 120 locations through terrestrial links and the remaining through Remote Access Server, a Cisco release said here. "We have chosen Cisco's network and solution with the objective of consolidating our information resources and improving...

US networks gear-maker Cisco Systems has invested over $1 billion in India, which it calls its second global headquarters and spawning ground for a multitude of technology innovations. But it has no plans to manufacture flagship networking products like routers, switches or telepresence systems in India in the "absence of an enabling" environment. Speaking to ET, Jeff White , president, India & Saarc, Cisco Systems , gives a sense of the company's global manufacturing...

BENGALURU: Veterans from Tech Mahindra, GE, Vodafone, Cisco, Philips and Tesco are forming an India Internet of Things panel to build open source IoT solutions for solving problems in areas such as healthcare, education and agriculture. Led by industry body Institution of Engineering Technology, the panel will be chaired by Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar, global head for digital enterprise services at Tech Mahindra. Other members include...

NEW DELHI: Cisco Systems , the US-based networking major, wants to partner in the Indian government's initiative to build smart cities and is offering to provide the last-mile connectivity at villages under the national broadband project, which is the backbone for the Digital India programme . Speaking to ET, Pankaj Patel , the company's global head for engineering, said Cisco had already undertaken...

MUMBAI: Mahindra Group on Tuesday signed a strategic alliance with Cisco Systems . The joint venture will collaborate on global platform and provide cloud computing services. Cisco said that the partnership with Mahindra will work on areas including connecting communities. The JV has an ambitious target market at $5 billion in 5 years. Mahindra & Mahindra, Vice Chairman, Anand Mahindra said: "The JV will provide cloud computing services...

NEW DELHI: Cisco Systems will increase its workforce in India by about 60% over the next four years as part of its strategy for emerging markets, a senior executive of the network equipment maker told ET. This will be the first big-scale recruitment by Cisco in India after it announced a 15% cut in global workforce in mid 2011. Most of the hiring will be for the company's research and development centre in Bangalore, which is its largest outside the US. The...

SAN FRANCISCO: Cisco Systems today unveiled super-fast Internet hardware that promises to boost US competitiveness and bolster economic recovery by moving mountains of data at astounding speeds. The leader in networking equipment said its new router "triples the capacity of its predecessor," and "enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second. " The system also would enable...

NEW DELHI: The Comptroller and Auditory General (CAG) of India has named large companies such as HCL Infosystems, state-owned telco MTNL,US-based networking giant Cisco Systems, and digitial media firm Hungama as colluding with the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games and causing a combined loss of Rs 500 crore to exchequer. During the Commonwealth Games 2010, tech majors were contracted for providing timing and scoring...

BENGALURU: The number of crorepatis at Cisco India shot up to 132 in 2014 from just three in the previous year, a development that comes at a time when the USbased network equipment maker is gearing up to cash in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' initiative. With a fresh investment of $1.7 billion, the company is offering huge salary hikes to retain employees, even as it looks to hire the best engineering and sales talent from local as well as...

BENGALURU: The number of crorepatis at Cisco India shot up to 132 in 2014 from just three in the previous year, a development that comes at a time when the USbased network equipment maker is gearing up to cash in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' initiative. With a fresh investment of $1.7 billion, the company is offering huge salary hikes to retain employees, even as it looks to hire the best engineering and sales talent from local as well as international markets. ...

John Chambers, chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems , is at a critical moment in his long career in Cisco. He is on the verge of retirement, but Cisco has been going through a turbulent period in the last few years. From an Indian point of view, his strataegy in the country had not gone according to plan. Chambers has bet on a few new businesses, and nothing is more critical than the Internet of Things. On...

BEIJING: China is aiming to purge most foreign technology from banks, the military, stateowned enterprises and key government agencies by 2020, stepping up efforts to shift to Chinese suppliers, according to people familiar with the effort. The push comes after a test of domestic alternatives in the northeastern city of Siping that was deemed a success, said the people, who asked not to be named because the details aren't public. Workers there replaced Microsoft Windows...

MUMBAI: Faering Capital India Evolving Fund has invested an undisclosed amount in Linkstreet, which provides cloud-based solutions using video for learning and collaboration. The capital will be used to further invest in product and business development as the company is looking to increase client base four- fold in the coming year. Linkstreet has been co-founded by Arun Muthukumar and Vikram Ramakrishnan in 2011....

NEW YORK: US stocks opened lower on Wednesday, a day after the Dow and S&P 500 closed at record highs for a fifth straight session. Financial companies lost ground after global regulators fined five major banks - including UBS AG , HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc - $3.4 billion for failing to stop their traders from trying to manipulate the foreign exchange market. Citigroup shares dipped 0.5 percent to $53.56 while the S&P financial index lost 0.3...

BANGALORE: India's fifth-largest IT services company Tech Mahindra has acquired US-based big data analytics startup FixStream Networks for around Rs 60 crore. Tech Mahindra has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange , that it will acquire 75 per cent stake in the one year old company which counts large technology companies Cisco Systems , CenturyLink , and DirecTV among its early stage customers. "This is a good deal for both the companies. We are...

NEW DELHI: Cisco Systems, Inc. the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, on Friday announced the opening of its Pune office. The opening is in line with Cisco's strategy to expand and strengthen its customer engagements in the Maharashtra and Goa region. The Pune office will be headed by Chetan Sabnis and will be responsible for driving growth in western region. Commenting on the new office, Jangoo Dalal, senior vice president-enterprise, Cisco Systems (India & SAARC)

At 61, Wim Elfrink recalls every image his father painstakingly drew up to recreate schools, airports, buildings that were razed to the ground in The Netherlands during the Second World War. While the Elfrink Senior, based in Rotterdam, was a brick-and-mortar architect tasked with such reconstruction, his son styles himself as a 'digital architect'. As the Chief Globalisation Officer at Cisco, Elfrink prides himself on applying digital overlay to...

NEW DELHI: MakeMyTrip, the Gurgaon-based online travel firm, has established a $15-million (Rs 90-crore) innovation fund to invest in startups working on travel-related technology. With this move, the Nasdaqlisted MakeMyTrip follows the footsteps of a handful of digital companies in India such as InfoEdge, One97, Times Internet and Smile Group, which invest in startups related to strategic businesses. "The MakeMyTrip board in its...